Couch to 5K
posted in Shaping Up |This weekend will be my last run for the Couch to 5K program.
In short, I’ll be done. It’s been nine weeks (ten weeks) of running. I can run about 2.5 miles in about 30 minutes. Next Sunday is my first ever 5K run, it’s the Komen “run for the cure.” And next month is the “Run Like Hell” zombie run. For the next few weeks I’ll be working on raising my pace to a 10 minute mile and increasing my distance to the 5K (3.4 miles). After that, well. I’m not sure; it’s pretty easy to get an hour three times a week to run but an hour and a half is kind of pushing it. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll do hour runs twice a week and then once on the weekend do a longer distance.
And two fingers up for my 7th grade gym teacher. He rode my case pretty hard- I couldn’t do a mile in an hour in 7th grade. I think I frustrated him. I know he frustrated me, between yelling at me for not being able to run and having to keep stopping to “tie my shoes” and telling me that swimming will be easier (it wasn’t, but at least I was less sweaty).
I really enjoy biking and swimming – I flirt sometimes with the idea of doing triathlons. But I’m not a serious kind of guy.
I was considering doing something nice for myself when I finished this program but I’m discouraged from that now. I thought about an iPod touch but really, my phone with Pandora is doing me pretty well. Maybe I’ll just buy a shirt or something. It hasn’t really done much for my weight loss; I’m still at 212, which is still down the 25 pounds I lost with Weight Watchers.
Ms B is also doing the C25K but had a setback with her bronchitis. She’s run a few times since then and we’ll get her to the 9 week mark too. I really enjoy spending that time with her.
